Elon Musk has long signaled a major strategic shift for Tesla, moving the company away from its roots as an automaker and toward a broader autonomy play. The vision centers on replacing human-driven vehicles with robotaxis and expanding into humanoid robotics. This pivot, telegraphed for years, represents one of the most ambitious repositionings in the tech industry.


Musk has telegraphed for years that human-driven Teslas would give way to robotaxis and humanoid robots in a pivot from automaker to autonomy.